Improvement in hand-plows



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI.

MELOHESEDEOK Y. THOMPSON, OF ABKADELPHIA, ARKANSAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND-PLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 71,706, dated January 1, 1876; application filed August 14, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MELoHEsEDEcK YOUNG THOMPSON, of Arkadelphia, in the county of Clark and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand and Horse Flows; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. I

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved plow with wheel attached. Fig.' 2 is a perspective view of plow without wheel. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view ofa collar to be attached to the plow when it isdesired to use the wheel with a horse. Fig. 4 is a detached perspective view of a different form of the bent iron bar forming the plowstock.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondingparts of the invention.

The object of my'invention is to construct a light plow capable of being worked by hand, horse-power, or other traction, and which has its plow-stock with foot-seat and handle-seat made of one continuous bar of iron bent into the necessary conformation, as will be more fully ,set forth and described in the following specification and claims.

A A is an iron bar, so bent as to form a complete plow-stock fora plow, with the footseat B holding the plowshare C. The bar A A passes up on both sides of the wooden wheel D D, which is re-enforced at the center by the circular iron plate E. F is an iron bolt, which passes through abolt-hole in both sides of bar A A, and through the wheel D 1), when it is secured by a nut, thus forming an axle for the wheel.

The bars A A consist of a flat strip of metal, bent near the center to form the foot-step B, and near the ends to the wheel of the plow by the bolt F, as before stated, the ends of at an acute angle, in such manner that while the main portion of said bars A A, in the direction of their width, will fall in a plane perpendicular to the horizon, throwing their width in the line of strain upon the same, the ends astwisted and bent will present a flat bear-' jug-surface for attaching to the under side of the plow-handles, the bend or twist at the angle throwing the width of the metal partially in the line of strain upon the same, thus increasing the strength of the bars at the angle without adding to the weight of metal. H H are braces passing from handles G G to plow-foot,- where they are attached at I I. K is an extra collar, designed to be passed over periphery of wheel D D, and fastened at its extremity L by bolt F, the wheel'axle. This collar may beused when it is designed to attach a horse to the plow.

When it is designed to work a horse in the plow without using the wheel, the horse may be attached by means of the plow-clevis M.

The great cheapness, lightness, and extreme simplicity of my improved plow-stock are too obvious to require any extended illustration. 1 can use any description of plow upon my improved plow-stock.

Having thus described myinventioml claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination of the barsA A, having their ends twisted and bent backward, as described, with the wooden handles G, the wheel upon which the plow is mounted, and the plowshare attached to said bars, substantially as herein described and shown.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own invention 'I hereby affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MELCHESEDECK YOUNG THOMPSON.

Witnesses:

T. A. HEARD, J. A. Nor. 

